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The 2022 Horse of the Year had a strong 2023 campaign and ended the season with a third-place run in the Breeders' Cup Filly & Mare Turf.  “She had us out of our seats, the Breeders’ Cup was an exciting race,” said Donato Lanni, curator of the X-Men Racing...

He’s won the King’s Plate, Woodbine Oaks and Prince of Wales Stakes but a Breeders’ Cup victory would be a crowning achievement for Canadian trainer Kevin Attard.  “Being Canadian, the King’s Plate means a lot,” Attard said. “But if you get lucky enough to win a...

In the 40th edition of the premier event of the North American Thoroughbred horse racing year, the best-of-the-best thoroughbreds face off in 14 G1 races this year at Santa Anita Park in California.  Top agent Donato Lanni bought several of the contenders in this...

On a dank, rainy afternoon in flood-soaked New York, Krikorian took down a pair of grade 1 races in the space of 30 minutes. First up was War Like Goddess , Krikorian's veteran race mare who proved she has plenty left in the tank, bouncing back from a pair of losses...

Leading 3-year-old Arabian Lion, who became Justify's first Grade 1 winner after capturing this year's G1 Woody Stephens Stakes at Belmont Park, has been retired from racing and will enter stud at Spendthrift Farm for the 2024 breeding season. His introductory fee...

Zedan Racing Stable's 'TDN Rising Star' Muth (c, 2, Good Magic–Hoppa, by Uncle Mo), second as the heavy favorite after pressing a blistering pace in the GIII Best Pal S. Aug. 13, showed a new dimension by coming off the pace while making his two-turn debut in style in...

George Krikorian’s War Like Goddess reeled in runaway pacesetter So High to defeat males for a second straight year in Saturday’s Grade 1, $500,000 Joe Hirsch Turf Classic, a 1 1/2-mile outer turf test for 3-year-olds and up, at Belmont at the Big A. Bred in Kentucky...

For the second year in a row, the fabulous 6-year-old mare War Like Goddess beat the guys in the 1 1/2-mile turf stakes as she prepped for a return trip to the Breeders' Cup Turf by recording a decisive 4 1/2-length victory Oct. 7 at Aqueduct Racetrack and giving...

To see Adare Manor (f, 4, Uncle Mo–Brooklynsway, by Giant Gizmo) gallop out after Santa Anita's GII Zenyatta S. was to see a filly who looked like she was pretty proud of herself. Indeed, she should have been. The Zenyatta was Adare Manor's fifth straight win, as well...

Adare Manor did just what she was supposed to do in the Oct. 1 Zenyatta Stakes (G2) at Santa Anita, gliding home an easy winner. Her facile triumph over three others likely earned her a chance in the Breeders' Cup, according to trainer Bob Baffert. Donato Lanni...

With her last three victories coming in graded the stakes, the most recent a one-length score going a mile and one sixteenth in the G1 Clement L. Hirsch at Del Mar Aug. 5, Adare Manor should be tough to deny on the front end with Juan Hernandez back aboard for Bob...

Canadian second-crop sire Danish Dynaformer was represented by his first black-type stakes winner Sept. 24 when his daughter War Painter rallied to take the CA$100,000 Victorian Queen Stakes at Woodbine with authority. War Painter, a 2-year-old filly trained by Kevin...